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The Road to Artificial Intelligence: An Ethical Minefield
Increasingly-rapid developments in the field of AI have offered society profound benefits, but have also produced complex ethical dilemmas. Many of the most nefarious issues are often overlooked, even in the engineering community. There also exists the meta-ethical question of who ought to be the ones making decisions concerning the encoding of values into autonomous systems.
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Q&A on the Book Build a Next-Generation Digital Workplace
The book Build a Next-Generation Digital Workplace by Shailesh Shivakumar explains what employee experience platforms (EXP) are and how digital technologies can be used to improve employee productivity, increase employee engagement, and support collaboration.
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Groovy 3.0 Adds New Java-Like Features
Groovy 3 adds several new features similar to equivalents in Java, including the enhanced for loop, try-with-resources and lambda expressions.
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Functional UI (Framework-Free at Last)
Functional UI is a set of techniques which rely heavily on functional programming to develop user interface applications. While deceptively simple, functional UI techniques are surprisingly powerful. Functional UI directly reflects the application's specifications, allows developers to unit-test user scenarios, and UI frameworks become mere libraries. Framework-free at last!
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Book Review: Developer, Advocate!
Developer, Advocate! is a set of interviews with prominent technologists, covering what drives their interest and enthusiasm in the industry. The brevity of each interview provides direct information and insight that can be read separately at any time, in any order, enabling those with busy schedules to read, put down, and repeat.
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A Bottom-Up View of Kotlin Coroutines
Recently coroutines have become popular as an alternative to Reactive Programming on the JVM. In many cases the costs of restructuring your code around functional operations for reactive streams outweigh the benefits, so coroutines have emerged, initially for Android, as an alternative solution. This deep dive explores how Kotlin's implementation works under the hood.
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The Datum Data Binding Library
There has been an explosion of frameworks and libraries for making single page applications for the web. Angular, React, Vue and quite a few others have made it easier to develop on the web and helped fuel its growth as webapps have become more dynamic and interactive. Howeve,r there may still be room for other libraries and new ideas such as Datum, a new, simple data binding library.
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Preparing Entity Framework Core for Static Analysis and Nullable Reference Types
In this article we walk through the process of updating an EF Core 3.1 based DAL to adhere to modern best practices such as TreatWarningsAsErrors, FxCopAnalyzers, and C# 8’s nullable reference types.
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Enterprise API Management: Q&A with Book Author Luis Weir
In the Enterprise API Management book, Luis Weir provides technology-agnostic strategies that organizations can implement to drive more predictable outcomes. The topics that Weir covers in this book include the Business Value of APIs, Business-Led API Strategy, API-Led Architectures, API-Architecture Styles, API Life Cycle and more.
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How King uses AI to test Candy Crush Saga
To be able to improve features in games which are constantly evolving, the challenge will be to scale tests to be on a par with new feature development. Automated tests are vital for King to keep up testing Candy Crush, therefore they are constantly looking for new improved ways to test.
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Getting to Know Deep Java Library (DJL)
Amazon has announced DJL, an open source library to develop Deep Learning models in Java. This article details how to get started with the toolkit. The library aims to reduce number of software dependencies by enabling end-end Deep learning development in Java, rather than having to use additional technologies such as Python or R.
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Q&A on the Book Building Digital Experience Platforms
The book Building Digital Experience Platforms by Shailesh Kumar and Sourabhh Sethii describes methods, techniques, and practices for using digital experience platforms (DXP) and provides a digital transformation case study from a banking application.